will be thankful if he can get such people to have an intelligent understanding of the most essential teachings of sin, repentance, faith, justification, grace and means of grace. Such people will be glad to read a plain, practical book that will help them.* With a good, live brotherhood to help him the zealous pastor should get great good out of such classes. They are among the most fruitful evangelistic agencies of our Church.

The good brotherhood will always exert a helpful, a stimulating and an encouraging influence on the Luther League. By their own frequent or, better still, regular attendance, by enlisting the interest of others, by helping to win new members, by assistance in making the meetings interesting, by promoting outings and social indoor gatherings and in many other ways the brotherhood can make the Luther League an efficient factor for good in the Church.

All that we said above of the Sunday School and catechical class applies to the Luther League. Here are the incipient and growing lay-priests, the future workers and pillars of the Church. Let the pastor win the confidence of every Luther

*It was partly to help pastors reach and assist such people that the Author of this wrote "The Way of Salvation In The Lutheran Church." The revised edition is in its 35th 1000.

Leaguer. Let him inspire, lead and direct all the services and activities of his league. Here are the church's forces and helpers in the making.*

The Church finances are often a heavy cross to the pastor, a temptation to resort to worldly schemes of making money and a discouragement to the whole Church. Happy is the pastor who has a good brotherhood. Its members will always conduct a thorough, a successful every member canvass. They will be ready to get under every heavy load that ought to be carried. They will be ready for every special drive. They will find their chief joy in making their Church a generous Church, well reported for good works in its Synod. In this also will the brothers be exercising the blessed functions of New Testament priests.

It goes without saying that in such a Church the brotherhood and the Ladies' Society, the Luther League and Sunday School will all work together in looking after and relieving the poor, the needy, the lonely, the sorrowing, the sick and suffering of the congregation and of the neighborhood who need comfort and help. Such Inner Mission work is the joy of the priesthood of be

* See "Problems & Possibilities," pp. 95, 96, 107-109.

lievers. It is true, Christian, social service. It makes glad the City of God, the holy place of the Tabernacles of the Most High. It brings beauty, power and glory to the Church. It clothes her with the beautiful garments of the Bride of Christ. It approaches more and more to being a glorious Church having neither spot nor wrinkle nor any such thing.

Our dear Church has much whereof to glory. She is the Church of the pure doctrine. This gives her that satisfying and saving message. This ought to make her messengers always offer that heavenly message in the most attractive and in the most appealing form. Her sermons ought to thrill, to move, to melt, to draw, to transform mind, heart and life.

Now let our dear Church everywhere bring back to its rightful place, a rightful comprehension, apprehension and utilizing of the Priesthood of Believers and she will again rise and shine. She will shine with the glory of the transfigured Christ who is her foundation, her hope, her all in all. She will go forth as the morning, bright as the sun, clear as the moon and terrible as an Army with banners.

She will come into her own.